openSUSE launches Life – Linux for Education

openSUSE Education team has announced the first release of Li-f-e (Linux for Education). Based on openSUSE 12.3, the first issue is carries the version number 12.3-1. Li-f-e comes with all the official updates applied and available in all major desktop environments including Gnome, KDE and Cinnamon.

…it includes wide range of software catering to the needs of everyone, selection from openSUSE Education repository, multimedia from the Packman repository, development tools, KIWI-LTSP allowing normal PC or diskless thin clients to network boot from a server running Li-f-e and lot more. To summarize, everything you need to make your computer useful is available right out of the box as soon as Li-f-e is installed on it.

Li-f-e will offer a healthy competitor to Edubuntu, and further spread the proliferation of GNU/Linux in education segment.

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